atari2600land's Blog - Video Poker

RSS Bot · September 23, 2018

So I figured out that I do not understand Craps in the slightest after attempting to play it on Golden Nugget Casino 64. So I am not going to make it for the Virtual Boy. Instead I will attempt to make a version of Video Poker.

Here's what I have so far:

And this was a challenge. It kept wanting to give me a straight, but I finally did what I wanted it to do. Next I will make a hand icon and make it press the "keep" button to keep the cards you pick and then redeal the ones you don't want. And then comes ranking. Ranking will be the hardest part. I found a blog comment from AtariAge member "davyk" on a Javascript routine to rank poker hands. It looks similar to C, which is what I'm using to code the game.

So it's back to Virtual Boy programming. I was a bit rusty on C, but I eventually picked up from where I left off, deleting the craps part and beginning work on a video poker part.

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